Sherri Brokopp Binder, PhD
Dr. Sherri Brokopp Binder is President of BrokoppBinder Research & Consulting, a research and evaluation consulting firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Trained as a community psychologist, Dr. Binder’s work spans the academic, non-profit, and private sectors. Her research focuses on housing recovery and postdisaster relocation, with an emphasis on home buyout programs. Her work includes mixed-method studies of community and governmental response and recovery following recent wildfires in Northern California and Lahaina, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Sandy, the 2013 Moore, OK tornadoes, and the 2009 South Pacific tsunami. She received her B.A. in International Affairs from Kennesaw State University, her M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University, her Ph.D. in Community and Cultural Psychology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and a graduate certificate in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Binder served for seven years as the Sustainable Cities Division Director at the Urban Ecology Institute, an environmental policy institute at Boston College.